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“Dancing is . . . A reparative experience that directly contradicts the terror, helplessness and visibility of trauma to enable survivors to reclaim ownership of their bodies and their lives.”
I am honored to share about the incredible nonprofit Dance to Be Free. This beautiful program, founded in 2015, by friend and dance teacher, Lucy Wallace, takes the healing power of dance to incarcerated women and men in prisons across the U.S..
The programming consists of teaching participants to utilize movement and dance, self reflection, and community to provide joyful, somatic experiences to benefit and improve their lives while in prison. Once they receive training from Dance To Be Free, they begin teaching, as instructors, classes to the general population.
This program has provided a bright, joyful, connective and uplifting opportunity which has changed hundreds of lives within the prisons and beyond. Dance to Be Free (DTBF) is based in Boulder, CO. Currently, Lucy has been able to expand DTBF into 20 prisons across 12 states. On this side of the USA, I am fortunate enough to help facilitate progamming and teach DTBF to incarcerated women in Tennessee and Virginia, and hope to expand even further in 2024.
To learn more and to help us take this programming to more prisons, please visit www.dancetobefree.org.